If You Were a Dragon... Miluno

(Miluno)

A cold current flooded into my Battle Dress, and I shivered.

Indoors, the Ice Dragon had summoned a blizzard laced with invisible sword energy. It was far worse than pouring water over snowballs during a snowball fight. The sword energy had already been hard to detect, and beneath the perception-obscuring snowstorm, it became completely invisible. Even I found it difficult to dodge, let alone Ceruno and the others, who could not see what was happening...

Uh, wait.

It seemed I was the only one getting attacked. Ceruno and the others were perfectly safe behind the windproof bubble?

It looked like the Ice Dragon's sudden gale had been meant to target me alone.

She had not underestimated me. From the very beginning, she had gone all out and even drawn Dark Energy from the Black Pool.

Once the temperature dropped, I could not move even with time acceleration. My body already had a delay, and if I froze stiff, fighting would become even harder.

Still, she had left us a way out.

We only had to leave the Breeding Facility through the passage we had come down...

She wanted us to retreat in the face of difficulty.

"Ceruno, Bubble Membrane!"

"Okay!"

"Just block the wind and preserve our body heat. Don't try to defend against those sword energies!"

Ceruno raised her trident and erected a Bubble Membrane around me to shield me from the snowstorm.

For a moment, the freezing air was cut off from me, and my body no longer felt so cold.

To make the bubble last longer, I had Ceruno abandon any defense against the invisible sword energy. It served only as a windbreak and insulating layer. That meant the unseen sword energy in the blizzard could still hurt me, but I would just have to endure